Friday, March 2

Warm up: Choose one of the following to reflect on to the class:

What do you know about religion?
How do you know what you know about religion?
Why do you know more about some than others?
Have you met individuals from all the religions you claim to know about?
What limits your knowledge of other religions?

1) Rotating Chalk Talk: Religion--What Do You Know?

Major religions for analysis in Chalk Talk (in order of historical appearance): Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, (for large classes, add Shintoism or Animism).
- Possible topics for students to record on butcher paper: origins, ideas, holy books, founders, holy sites, places of worship, (you may brainstorm others as a class)

Optional, if time permits:
2) Begin answering this series of questions about religion and human geography.

Monday, March 5
1) Share out on Sikhism (364 words)

2) Do religions spread ideas or do ideas spread religion? How are migration and geography related to religion?
How does religion impact an environment?

Religions by Map

Religion Quotes.pptx

Hans Rosling on Religion and Babies (13:20)

3) Discussion: Chapter 6 Presentation

After: Find a contemporary article within the news that focuses on the topic of religion and geography.
Answer the following questions and share within spreadsheet:
- What is the title of the article? (share the url)
- What is the main idea of the article? (3-5 sentences)
- How does this article relate to one or more issues/key issues within the unit?

Tuesday, March 6

2) Submit your series of questions.

Spreadsheet to submit your work; be sure to give your teacher editing rights to the document.

3) Writing prompt: Religion